Moldavian trade deficit increased to $179.4 million in October of 2016, compared to $148.6 million gap a year earlier. Exports went up 6.5 percent and imports rose 12.5 percent. In the first ten months of the year, trade gap declined by 1.2 percent to $1,642.6 million. Exports edged down 0.2 percent, driven by vegetables and fruits (-27.3 percent); pharmaceutical products (-39 percent); fats and oils (-35.4 percent); oilseeds (-2.9 percent), sugar, sugar preparations and honey (-6.5 percent); metalliferous ores and metal scrap (-44.3 percent); crude oil, petroleum (-45.3 percent); machinery (-65.6 percent); and textiles (-80.2 percent). Imports decreased by 0.7 percent, led by natural gas and industrial products (-27.3 percent); crude oil, petroleum (-13.8 percent); vegetables and fruits (-21.8 percent); machinery (-14.6 percent); ferrous metals (-21.3 percent) and iron and steel (-10.6 percent) Balance of Trade in Moldova averaged -200.99 USD Million from 2005 until 2016, reaching an all time high of -40.40 USD Million in January of 2005 and a record low of -350.20 USD Million in December of 2013.